Section 2: Digital Objects

Overview

• Going Digital by Michael Lesk, Scientific American, March 1997

• The Changing Role of Photographic Collections With the Advent of Digitization by Howard Besser

• Stuart Glogoff's Notes from Michael Esters December 1996 "Digital Image Collections Issues and Practice" published by the Commission on Preservation & Access

• Time and Bits: Managing Digital Continuity

Digital Imaging

• Introduction to Imaging: Issues in Constructing an Image Database by Howard Besser and Jennifer Trant, Malibu, CA: The Getty Information Institute, c. 1995

• About Digital Imaging: A Collection of Web-based Resources Charlottesville, VA: Digital Image Center, University of Virginia Library

• Working with Images, notes from Kristin Antelman's presentation at ALA's Mid-winter meeting, February 1997

Organizing Digital Objects

• Preserving the Old Pueblo: Oral History in the New Millenium by Micaela Morales and Stuart Glogoff, April 22, 1997

• Information Access and Electronic Publishing by Stuart Glogoff, Mohamed Taleb, and Joanne Martinez, February 26, 1997

• Stop The Presses! Electronic Publishing Opportunities for Librarians, by Micaela Morales, Mohamed Taleb, and Stuart Glogoff, December 5, 1996

• Using the World Wide Web for Community Outreach: Enriching Library Service to the Community by Louise Glogoff and Stuart Glogoff, July 1996

Documents and Documentation

• Metropolis Feature: World History by Nick Bourbakis Metropolis February/March 1998

• What is the document?? Xerox, The Document Company (be sure to visit the related links to this page)

• AHDS' Standards for Digital Information Interchange. A Resources Page and Digital Preservation

• Cedars Project; Hypertext '98; Digital Libraries '98; IEEE Workshop on Content-Based Access of Image and Video Libraries; Introducting the Tibetan OCR Project

Readings page on metadata

Critiquing Digital Collections

Visit the sites on this page and evaluate them in terms of the criteria reviewed in class